Nonrefillable bottle



April 22, 1930. A. IMPELLITTERI I NONREFILLABLE BOTTLE Filed May 18. 1927 Patented .Apr. 22, 1930 ANTONIO IMIELLITTERI, or NEW :LONDON, CONNECTICUT NONREFILLABLE BOTTLE Application fiIedl May s, 1927.- I Serial No. 192,174.

The invention relates tononrefillable bottles, and has for its object to provide a device of this character, the stopper of'which is provided with a double valve seat with which i a reciprocating valve cooperates in a manner whereby liquid will be allowed to pass from the bottle during a pouring operation by the unseating of the valve with'one of the valve seats, the liquid allowed to pass around the valve through discharge ports in the other valve seat, andspring means for-maintaining the valve out of engagement with the 7 last named valve seat during the pouring 7 operation. The spring means .is strong enough to prevent the seating of the valve during a pouring operation, but not strong enough to prevent the unseating of the valve upon inverting the bottle Wherethe weight of the liquid will be on the valve. 7 A further object is to provide a nonrefillable bottle stopper comprising a body member having a slidable tubularmember therein and terminating in a double .valve, which double valve cooperates with adjacent 5 valve seats in a manner whereby upon in verting the bottle the weight of the liquid will unseat the valve in relation to the lower or inner valve seat, thereby allowing the liquid to pass around the valve and through discharge ports in the outer valve seat. Also to provide spring means cooperating with the valve and preventing the seating of the valve on the outer valveseat during a pouring operation and'forming means whereby upon fraudulent attempts to fill the bottle under a vacuum or pulsation, the valve will be seated. o I

A further object is to providethe stopper with outwardly converging discharge ports positioned whereby when an instrument is inserted through said portfor manipulating the valve, said valve will be in the pathv of V the instrument and will immediately seat; I

I A further object is to provide a locking ring for holding the stopper in the bottle neck, which ring is an expansible split one,

and when the stopper is forced .into the bottle neck, expands outwardly into a channel in the inner periphery of the bottle neck,

thereby positively locking the stopper in the bottle neck. 1. W

With the above and other objects in View the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter set forth,

shown in the drawing, described andclaimed,

it being understood that changes in the precise' embodiment of the invention may be made within the scope of'what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention. v 1- l In the drawing: I

"Figure 1 is a vertical transverse sectional viewthrough a conventional form of bottle and the stopper. Go

' Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken'on line 2-2 of Figure 1. r "Figure 3 is a horizontal sectionalview taken on'line 33 ofFigure Figure 4 is ahorizontal sectional view taken on line 44 of Figure 1. r j j -Referring to the drawing the numeral' l designates a conventional form of bottle, and 2 the neck thereof. Disposed within the neck 2 is a stopper 8, which stopper is pro vided with a flange 1, which engages the upper end of the neck and is heldwithin the neck 2 by means of the'split expansible ring 5, which ring engages in the channel6 in theouter periphery of the stopper and into the channel 7 in the inner periphery of the neck-2. It will be noted that the channel 6 is relatively deep whereby'the ring 5 may be contracted therein so'that the stopper will pass into the neck as well as the ring, and 2'; after the flange 4 comes into engagement with the upper end of the neck 2, the channels Band 7 will be in the same plane, and

at which time the ring 5 will expand out wardly to a positionasshown in Figure 1, v

Where it will be within both channels 6' and 7, thereby positively locking the stopper in the bottle neck. The lower outerperiphery Jof'the stopper 3 is preferably provided with an annular cork member. 8 for forming a close water tight vfit 'ofthe stopper, consequently epreventingleakage or evaporation. 1

k Slidably mounted inthe aperture 9 extending through the cork orrstopperbody 1' is al tubular member 11, through which liquid passes and the opposite sides of said tubular member adjacent its upper end is provided with discharge ports 12, through which liquid passes, when the bottle is inverted for a pouring operation The upper or outer end of the tubular member 11 terminates in a valve13which. valve is ac'douhleone, and

7 when the bottle is not in use, or whengitis under pressure or iinpulsed for fraudulent filllng the portion 14: thereof engages the valve seat 15, and whereitis under a shctiom for filling the valve 13 moves to a position where its portion 16 will engage the valve i seat 17, thereby preventing flow of liquid,

into the bottle through thediverging ports 18, th re ore it, wil b een at o tle can not be filled under normal conditions.

Disposed: w thin? the me be h c is held within the; outer'end' of the stopper by crimpi-ng'at; 21 is; a; coiled spring 22, and

which. coiled spring is. of suficient: expansivestrength .to normallymaintain the valve'lg out ofiengagementg with the valve seat 13 during;.-a;pouringoperation, and; the weight, of

t the fluid serves tomnseat the valve 18 from the seat 15 a sufficient distance to allow the liquid which passes through the tubular memhen11, ports:12-, to passaround thevalve and. hrough; he c a ge po 8: 1 Threaded on the upper end-of the stopper memben20; is;v a cap 23, which cap is provided with a needle; valve. 24:, and which Lin-seated; in relation to; both, ofthe valve s ats, and po mpt o fill v ottle by a, pouring: operation, the valve will; seat and if arrattempt isjmade to-fill hy exhausting thflqfllF-QIT pulsations thevalve will also seat, by; overcoming: the. tension, of; the coiled spring22- a The: invention: having been set forth what isvclaimed as new and useful is:

A non-refillable bottle stopper comprising a body member adapted torbe received in the neckof a bottle, an axially movable valvle sleeve sl-idably mounted'in. the body member and having a I longitudinal: chamber therein and portsextending through the sleeve at oppositesides.thereof-adj acentits outer end', said body. member adj acent the outer end: of: the sleeve being-providedwith a chamber, said chamber adjacent the sleeve beingof diameter than the other portion of the chamher, a valve seat between the two diameters of the chamber, a valve carried by the sleeve and cooperating with the seat, a plug in the chamber of the body member above the valve in spaced relation thereto and having upwardly and invvardlyconverging and connecting discharge port-s an extension carried by said valve and slidably mounted in a chamber between the inner ends of the discharge ports and aspringcooperating with said extension andfor ning means for maintaining the valve seatedduringthe non-pouring operation.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aifix my signature.

TONIO IMPELLITTEB'I;

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